The idea or quote you select might be one that validates your practice and current beliefs, or it could be one that challenges you to think in new ways about your teaching and the ways you support student writers in your classroom…or even think about yourself as a writer.
After you select an idea worth revising and remaking, take time to reflect upon it. Think about your quote or passage as a “specimen on the table.” Look at it closely and dissect it before deciding how you can bring new meaning to it through your make. Then let your idea inspire your creativity, remixing your idea into a digital format. Find an image that represents its meaning, draw a picture that expresses your interpretation of it, or animate it to bring it to life.
There are many web tools that allow users to easily dress up written text with images, interesting fonts, borders, audio, and more. A few are suggested below:
After you select an idea worth revising and remaking, take time to reflect upon it. Think about your quote or passage as a “specimen on the table.” Look at it closely and dissect it before deciding how you can bring new meaning to it through your make. Then let your idea inspire your creativity, remixing your idea into a digital format. Find an image that represents its meaning, draw a picture that expresses your interpretation of it, or animate it to bring it to life.
There are many web tools that allow users to easily dress up written text with images, interesting fonts, borders, audio, and more. A few are suggested below:
Motivator – “Make your own motivational poster"
Quozio – “Turns meaningful words into beautiful images in seconds”
PicMonkey – “Take your pictures further”
Recite - Another free program to create posters
Fotobabble – Upload a photo and record your voice
You might also decide to experiment with one of the tools listed in the Introduction Make Cycle, or you might have one you would like to suggest. Please feel free to add resources to the Creativity Tools section in the MOOC Community.
As you create and post your idea, we encourage you to further connect by commenting on the quotes shared by others. Developing an interactive community is an important part of the SI experience as we learn with and from each other.
As you create and post your idea, we encourage you to further connect by commenting on the quotes shared by others. Developing an interactive community is an important part of the SI experience as we learn with and from each other.
Here's a Motivator poster I drafted based on an idea in my demo:
Click here for a Haiku Deck where Kim reflects on the concept "teacher-as-artist."
Here's a "remix" I drafted last year to capture what I'm learning about being a teacher of writing.
Here's a "remix" I drafted last year to capture what I'm learning about being a teacher of writing.
Teaching Lessons - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Finally, in the words of CLMOOC facilitators Stephanie West-Pluckett and Karen Fasimpaur, “Give yourself permission to do something new . . . Give yourself permission to do something fun. And finally, give yourself permission to fail and to succeed ─ knowing that we’ll clap for you either way.”
